Road salt is leaching into the reservoirs that hold New York City’s tap water and could make some of it unhealthy to drink by the turn of the century, according to a new study commissioned by city environmental officials. The study, released last week by the city’s Department of Environmental Protection, found that while salt … Read more
The sun glistened across the turquoise water. The palm trees shimmered in the warm breeze. For a certain set of high school seniors from New York, spring break on Paradise Island in the Bahamas was underway. Last week, hundreds of teenagers from about a dozen private high schools engaged in what has become an unsanctioned … Read more
The Trump administration on Monday welcomed concessions by Columbia University to tighten disciplinary procedures and assert more control over academic departments in response to charges of antisemitism, saying the actions represent a “positive first step in the university maintaining a financial relationship with the United States government.” Facing the loss of about $400 million in … Read more
Case 1:25-cv-02412 Document 1 Filed 03/24/25 Page 3 of 48 5. Mere days later, however, the federal government began a series of unlawful efforts to arrest, detain, and remove Ms. Chung from the country because of her protected speech. It now appears that an ICE official signed an administrative arrest warrant for Ms. … Read more
For tens of thousands of New York City families, vouchers for free or discounted child care from the city’s Administration for Children’s Services have offered a lifeline as the cost of day care for infants and toddlers has skyrocketed. Those vouchers could start disappearing in a matter of weeks unless lawmakers in Albany act quickly … Read more
Fred Eversley, a sculptor who used a technique dating back to Isaac Newton to make otherworldly discs of tinted resin, died on March 14 in Manhattan. He was 83. His death, in a hospital, was confirmed by his wife, Maria Larsson, who said that he died after a brief illness. Mr. Eversley was a Brooklyn … Read more
Nadine Menendez, the wife of New Jersey’s disgraced former senator, Robert Menendez, played a central role in a yearslong plot to trade her husband’s political influence for bribes of cash, gold and a luxury car, a prosecutor told jurors on Monday at the start of Ms. Menendez’s federal bribery trial. “They were partners in crime,” … Read more
When Mahmoud Khalil, who helped lead pro-Palestinian demonstrations while a Columbia University student, was detained this month, the Trump administration argued he should be deported to help prevent the spread of antisemitism, invoking a rarely used law. Lawyers for Mr. Khalil, a legal permanent resident who is being detained in Louisiana, quickly responded that the … Read more
President Trump on Monday said that he was appointing a spokeswoman and former personal lawyer as New Jersey’s interim U.S. attorney, continuing a pattern of placing his former legal representatives in top law enforcement positions. The appointee, Alina Habba, defended Mr. Trump in several civil trials that stemmed from lawsuits brought against him by the … Read more
Seven years ago, Democrats seized on a growing backlash against President Trump to flip the House of Representatives, relying partly on the successes of four newcomers with backgrounds in national security or the military. Two of them are now senators — Andy Kim of New Jersey and Elissa Slotkin of Michigan — and the other … Read more